The Media Stories for 2017

Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook 46
Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp On Reality 238
Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin 151
'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com 91
After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them 149
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' 402
New Victims in the 'Billionaire War on Journalism' 207
Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker 68
Google Says It Hasn't Promised To Help News Sites By Sharing Money and User Data 22
CNN Skeptical of Elon Musk's 'Big Promises' 206
Google AMP Flaw Exploited By Russian Hackers Targeting Journalists 57
Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters 145
SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died 221
Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field 216
Columnist Mocks The Case Against Cord-Cutting As 'Too Many Choices' 314
Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match 186
Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why 154
28 Years Later, Pioneering Tech Magazine 'Mondo 2000' Relaunches Online 35
CNET Pranked By Web Site's Fake 'All Out War' Hack During DEFCON 22
Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists 43
Walt Mossberg's Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws 96
Seven Science Journals Have A Dog On Their Editorial Board 106
Aftermath From The Net Neutrality Vote: A Mass Movement To Protect The Open Internet? 132
Streaming Services Will Pay Writers More Under New Writers Guild Pact 64
Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? 316
Tim Berners-Lee Warns About the Web's Three Biggest Threats 91
Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again 135
Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers 299
Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' 208
Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email 82
Trend Micro's Own Cybersecurity Blog Gets Hacked 17
The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Will.i.am 97
A Super Bowl Koan: Does The NFL Wish It Were A Tech Company? 126
Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report 760
CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates 498
Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item 333

I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943